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A Bird in the Hand (#1 George and Molly Palmer-Jones) by Ann Cleeves
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Pan Heritage Classics Ser.
Originally published in 1986, A Bird in the Hand announced Ann Cleeves, now the bestselling author of the Shetland and Vera Stanhope series, as a brilliant new voice in contemporary crime fiction.Who could have known birdwatching was such a dangerous sport?Young Tom French has been found dead in a marsh ...Show more
A Day in the Death of Dorothea Cassidy: An Inspector Ramsay Novel 3 by Ann Cleeves
Category: Crime and Thriller | Series: Pan Heritage Classics Ser.
For Dorothea Cassidy, Thursdays were special. Every week she would look forward to the one day she could call her own, and would plan to visit people she wanted to see as a welcome respite from the routine duties that being a vicar's wife entailed. But one Thursday in June was to be more special than an ...Show more
Beasts in My Belfry by Gerald Durrell
Category: Biography | Series: Pan Heritage Classics Ser.
"A loving chronicle of jitter-bugging gnus, singing duets with a bear, stealing eggs to feed the Arctic foxes, practising tiger sniffs . . . Highly entertaining and informative" The TimesOver a year at Whipsnade Zoo we encounter a typically absurd cast - including Albert the lion, who's a dab hand at ve ...Show more
Classic Tales of Babar (Heritage Classics) by Jean De Brunhoff
Category: Children's Classic Fiction | Series: Heritage Classics
"If you love elephants, you will love Babar and Celeste," writes A. A. Milne in his preface to "The Story of Babar". "And if you have never loved elephants, you will love them now." This is the story of Babar the Elephant and his travels. When his mother dies, Babar decides to seek his fortune in the bi ...Show more
Classic Tales of Rupert Bear (Heritage Classics) by Alfred Bestall
Category: Children's Classic Fiction | Series: Heritage Classics
This is a beautifully bound gift edition of these classic tales of the famous bear. This beautiful book contains two classic Alfred Bestall stories: "Rupert & The Mare's Nest" and "Rupert & The Lost Cuckoo". "Rupert and the Mare's Nest" - "What's a Mare's nest?" Rupert asks his father when he re ...Show more
Dr Finlay's Casebook by A. J. Cronin
Category: Fiction | Series: Pan Heritage Classics Ser.
"Dr Finlay's Casebook" is a delightful collection of episodic stories of Dr Finlay and his life in the fictional Scottish village of Tannochbrae during the inter-war years and based on A.J. Cronin's own experiences as a doctor. The BBC went on to dramatise these stories on both television and radio duri ...Show more
Fairy Tales from Many Lands (Heritage Classics) by Arthur Rackham
Category: Children's Classic Fiction | Series: Heritage Classics
This enchanting collection of fairy tales from around the world includes some well-known - and some lesser known - magical tales. From England comes the tale of Jack the Giant-Killer, from France Sleeping Beauty. From Italy we have Cesarino and the Dragon, The Adventures of Little Peachling from Japan a ...Show more
Hidden Wisdom in the Holy Bible, Volume 1 by Hodson Geoffrey
Category: Spirituality | Series: Theosophical Heritage Classics Ser.
This first of a two-volume abridgement of a Theosophical classic explains how a literal reading of the Bible misses rich concealed meaning, how Biblical symbols encode esoteric truths, and how Christ's life can be seen as an initiatory journey.
Just So Stories (Heritage Classics) by Rudyard Kipling
Category: Children's Classic Fiction | Series: Heritage Classics
Hear and attend and listen; for this befell and be happened and became and was: O my Best Beloved, when the tame animals were wild...Have you ever wondered how the Leopard got his spots? How the Rhinosaurus got his skin? Or how the Alphabet was made? This witty and wonderful collection of Just So Storie ...Show more
Kensuke's Kingdom (Heritage Classics) by Michael Morpurgo
Category: Children's Classic Fiction | Series: Heritage Classics
Kensuke's Kingdom is a true children's classic by former Children's Laureate Michael Morpurgo, the creator of War Horse. I heard the wind above me in the sails. I remember thinking, this is silly, you haven't got your safety harness on, you haven't got your lifejacket on. You shouldn't be doing this...I ...Show more
Little House on the Prairie (Heritage Classics) by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Category: Children's Classic Fiction | Series: Heritage Classics
"Here we are, Caroline!" said Pa. Right here we'll build our house." The sun-kissed prairie stretches out around the Ingalls family, smiling its welcome after their long, hard journey across America. But looks can be deceiving and they soon find out that they must share the land with wild bears and Indi ...Show more
Little Women (Heritage Classics) by Louisa May Alcott
Category: Children's | Series: Heritage Classics
"Watch and pray, dear, never get tired of trying, and never think it is impossible to conquer your fault." It's Christmas Eve in the March household, but this will be a Christmas like no other: their father is away fighting in the American Civil War and the March sisters and their mother must try to mak ...Show more